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Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part I Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche 9780520409897
RRP: $262.50$223.13In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist... -
An Inconvenient Place Jonathan Littel 9781804271124
RRP: $27.28$17.98What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of post-Soviet memorial... -
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays Ross Gay 9781643756356
RRP: $35.68$30.32From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet Ross Gay, a fresh new volume of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.The author of the New York Times... -
A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands Dagoberto Gilb 9780826366825
RRP: $46.10$39.19A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Roxane Gay 9781472158659
RRP: $23.08$19.61Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of... -
Here, Now: Essays Michelle Suzanne Mirsky 9780810147843
RRP: $46.10$39.19A deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss. In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that followed, she produced a profound and provocatively... -
We're Alone Edwidge Danticat 9781529439236
RRP: $33.58$32.30Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall,... -
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 John McPhee 9781250335708
RRP: $31.48$20.58Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even... -
I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations Diana Evans 9781784744243
RRP: $39.88$33.89I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. “You can lie down if you want”, she says. “I mean it’s fine, be comfortable, “ so I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being... -
Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays Eavan Boland 9781800171701
RRP: $52.50$36.37At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work - poems and prose. Together hey transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable impact throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major feminist thinker and essayist. She... -
Recombinant Theory Joel Katelnikoff 9781773855783
RRP: $102.80$87.38Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete... -
Bequeath: Essays Melora Wolff 9780807182772
RRP: $46.10$32.78What should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff's Bequeath presents a flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to solve the mysteries of bequeathed artifacts, family... -
The Labyrinth Jens Baggesen 9780192898517
RRP: $23.08$19.61'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a genre-bending and highly personal travel book that... -
The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature Jack E. Davis 9781683404620
RRP: $52.40$37.72Fall under the spell of Florida’s natural environmentIn this captivating collection, Florida’s most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved... -
On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning Richard Holloway 9781805302919
RRP: $39.88$26.94In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life. Here, then, are the big asks: is there a God? How can we forgive? Where does creativity come from? How can we face loss and death? How can we live a good... -
The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary Ciarn O'Rourke 9781739090210
RRP: $29.40$24.99A week-to-view diary, this elegant and practical publication gathers extracts from twenty years of outstanding writing from Irish Pages (the island’s premier literary journal) and The Irish Pages Press (“British Book Award Small Press of the Year 2022,... -
The Faith of an Artist John Wilson 9781032270890
RRP: $58.78$50.99First published in 1962, The Faith of an Artist presents assembled personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius in the present generation- poets, painters, architects and dramatists, novelists, and composers. These are all men of... -
South Korea: The Passenger Various 9781787705159
RRP: $39.88$26.21Eighty years ago, at the end of a devastating fratricidal war, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, completely dependent on the United States for security and development. Today it’s the tenth economy in the world, dynamic and... -
Naples: The Passenger Various 9781787705319
RRP: $39.88$33.89In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where to look for the ordinary,... -
Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History Nancy Dixon 9781496853639
RRP: $205.80$174.93Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, Shanna M. Salinas, Matthew Teutsch, and Marcus... -
Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters To Power Ahmed Olayinka Sule 9781739353773
RRP: $52.50$44.63Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters To Power is a collection of letters written to people in positions of authority and influence between 2008 and 2023. This is Ahmed Olayinka Sule’s first book. Born and raised in London, educated in Nigeria, he now...